Co-Directors

Dr Clare Torrible

Dr Clare Torrible is a Senior Lecturer with over 20 years legal professional and academic experience in policing and criminal justice. Her research focuses on policing and police accountability mechanisms with an increasing interest in evidence-based policing and police use of technology.

Mr John Peake

Members

Dr Foluke Adebisi

Dr Foluke Adebisi is a Professor at the Law School, University of Bristol whose scholarship focuses on decolonial thought in legal education and its intersection with a history of changing ideas of the 'human.'" 

Professor Lois Bibbings

Professor Lois Bibbings’ research looks at violence/non-violence both today and historically, often with a focus on masculinities. Areas of particular interest include military conscientious objection, WW1 military executions, the Shot at Dawn Campaign, state violence, inter-male violence, domestic abuse and zemiology. 

Dr Matthew Burton

Dr Matthew Burton is a lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol. His research and teaching focuses on, amongst other things, the human rights and constitutional implications of criminal law and the law of evidence. 

Dr Jennifer Collins

Dr Jennifer Collins is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Bristol. Educated at the University of Oxford, her main research interests are in criminal law and theory, with a focus on economic and financial crime. 

Professor Joanne Conaghan

Professor Joanne Conaghan is a legal researcher with a particular interest in the intersection of law and gender. This includes exploring gendered aspects of criminal law and criminal justice, particularly as they pertain to sexual violence. Most recently she has co-authored (with Yvette Russell) Sexual History Evidence and the Rape trial (BUP, 2023). 

Dr Ed Kirton-Darling

Dr Ed Kirton-Darling's research includes socio-legal analysis exploring hybrid civil/criminal law mechanisms in the context of the private rented sector as well as the ways in which inquests and investigations into contentious deaths relate to criminalisation and criminal law procedures and processes.  

Mr Roger George

Mr Roger George BA (Hons); LLM; FHEA is Senior Lecturer in the University of Bristol Law School, teaching criminal law and overseeing the unit on the Law of Evidence. Formerly a practising solicitor (currently non-practising) he worked predominantly as a criminal litigator both as a prosecutor and defence lawyer. His primary focus is teaching criminal law, criminal justice and the law of Evidence to which he brings his expertise in the practical application of the law in the police station and the courtroom. He is also involved in innovative pedagogical and engagement work with Avon and Somerset Constabulary

Dr Anil Singh Matoo

Dr Anil Singh Matoo is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol Law School. He holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and qualifications in both Philosophy and Law. His research focuses the U.S. penal system with a particular interest in the on psychological lives of inmates in U.S Supermax prisons. 

Professor Rachel Murray

Rachel Murray is Professor of International Human Rights Law and undertakes regular work, among other things, on the African human rights system, OPCAT and torture prevention. She advises national, regional and international organisations, and engages with governments, civil society organisations and individuals on human rights law. Among other positions, she is Deputy Leader of Doughty Street Chambers’ International team. She is also a magistrate sitting in Bristol. 

Professor Devyani Prabhat

Professor Devyani Prabhat specialises in immigration, citizenship, and asylum law, where she often examines the role of criminal law measures (crimmigration). Having practised law in the intersection of criminal and constitutional rights, she has won research grants from, (and served on, the peer review colleges of) the AHRC and ESRC, for migration research that intersects with both fields 

Mr Matt Rollinson

Matt Rollinson is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School, specialising in Criminal Law. Matt Teaches on both undergraduate and postgraduate criminal law courses. Matt was formerly a member of the Criminal Justice Reform Committee of the Cayman Islands, a judicial committee tasked with reforming the criminal justice system. In this role, he was co-author of the first part of the Cayman Islands Sentencing Guidelines. Matt has also published on various elements of the criminal law and has particular interest in the fault and conduct elements of criminal law

Professor Yvette Russell

Professor Yvette Russell has published widely on rape law and the rape trial, feminist philosophy, and criminal justice more broadly. She is the author (with Joanne Conaghan) of Sexual History Evidence and the Rape Trial (Bristol University Press, 2023).